Adamu Ibrahim operates a provision shop in Durumi-Mpape, near Maitama in Abuja. His shop was one of those that benefited from free solar power in 2014 when Operation Light Up Rural Nigeria (OLRN) came up. Three years after, Ibrahim said…
Despite spending N1.5trillion on the country’s power sector in the last two years, the Federal Government yesterday said it is in the process of investing a fresh $3 billion (N915bn) World Bank loan into the sector. The Minister of Finance,…
The 3050 megawatts (MW) Mambilla hydropower project in Taraba State, with a contract cost of N2.1 trillion is yet to begin, over 40 years after it was initiated, Daily Trust investigation revealed. The project has also been delayed two years…
The Nigerian government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country remained in darkness. Eight years later, Jonathan and Buhari administrations invested another N1.164 trillion into the sinkhole through capital releases, but homes and…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) recently notified eight power distribution companies (DisCos) on its intent to cancel their licences in 60 days after they accumulated N30.1 billion energy invoice debts for July 2019. The Federal Government had unbundled the…
There is a crisis in the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) because of the failure of the Managing Director (MD), Dr. Marilyn Amobi, to reinstate two senior staff of the agency she “unilaterally” sanctioned over alleged infractions. Despite the intervention…
As the federal government plans disbursement of a N600 billion power sector intervention fund, Generation Companies (GenCos) have approached the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to intervene on the imposition of a 0.75 percent administrative charge on them by the…
Bauchi State Government says it will improve the School feeding programme for primary school pupils in the state as part of efforts to ensure sanity and fairness. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Social Investment Alhaji Madaki Ahmed Gololo,…
The federal government has resumed the School Feeding Programme in Gombe state six months after its stoppage. A teacher in one of the affected schools had last week appealed to the government to resume the programme, saying that the stoppage…
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday declared open, a public hearing of the House Ad hoc Committee constituted to investigate abandoned power projects and review Federal Government’s expenditure in the sector since 1999. Read more:
